You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
JOHN GREENThe urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness.
More John Green Quotes
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You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I’m grateful.
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Poetry is just so emo.” he said. “Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul.
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Love is keeping the promise anyway.
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The measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance.
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We just did an awesome job of not dying.
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Writing is something you do alone. It’s a profession for introverts who wanna tell you a story but don’t wanna make eye contact while telling it
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You realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you. All efforts to save me from you will fail.
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The town was paper, but the memories were not.
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Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we’re quoting.
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I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence
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What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?
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The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.
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You are helpful, and you are loved, and you are forgiven, and you are not alone.
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The good times and the bad times both will pass.
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Maybe there is something you’re afraid to say, or someone you’re afraid to love, or somewhere you’re afraid to go. It’s gonna hurt. It’s gonna hurt because it matters.
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